Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A former erroneous spelling of
scrofula .
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- noun Obsolete spelling of
scrofula .
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Examples
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This inquiry is not now so much in its infancy as to restrain me from speaking more positively than formerly on the important point of scrophula as connected with the smallpox.
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In constitutions predisposed to scrophula, how frequently we see the inoculated smallpox rouse into activity that distressful malady!
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In constitutions predisposed to scrophula, how frequently we see the inoculated smallpox rouse into activity that distressful malady!
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This inquiry is not now so much in its infancy as to restrain me from speaking more positively than formerly on the important point of scrophula as connected with the smallpox.
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Miss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrophula were deeply visible.
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In constitutions predisposed to scrophula, how frequently we see the inoculated smallpox rouse into activity that distressful malady!
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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This inquiry is not now so much in its infancy as to restrain me from speaking more positively than formerly on the important point of scrophula as connected with the smallpox.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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In constitutions predisposed to scrophula, how frequently we see the inoculated smallpox rouse into activity that distressful malady!
I. An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, Or Cow-Pox. 1798 1909
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This inquiry is not now so much in its infancy as to restrain me from speaking more positively than formerly on the important point of scrophula as connected with the smallpox.
III. A Continuation of Facts and Observations Relative to the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox. 1800 1909
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Miss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrophula were deeply visible [2].
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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